Desk tablet



H.C.CURmER DESK TABLET Filed Sept. 24, 1928 INVENTOR HARRY C URR/ER BY 04 ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 3,1929

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This invention relates to desk tablets or paper holders, and the primary object is to provide an etlicient, practical, and highly novel construction of holder of the class in which a roll of paper is supported and from which roll the paper is drawn or unwound as fast as it is used. A. further object is to so construct the holder that a chamber will be termed to conveniently receive and retain m notes or memorandawhich the writer desires to preserve. A further object is to provide means for securing a piece of carbon paper to the device in such a manner that a roll of two strips of paper may be used, one strip running over and the other under the carbon,

whereby an original and one carbon copy may be had of each writing. Further and more specific objects will be disclosed in the course of the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken centrally and longitudinally through the device.

Fig. 3 is a section of the paper support, as

seen on the line 33 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing more particu-' larly and by reference characters 4 designates the bottom plate of a substantially rectangular base or housing having a rear wall 5, a

front wall 6, and side walls 7 all of which walls are preferably integral with and bent u from the side and and edges of the plate 4. ear their rear ends the walls 7 are provided, at their upper edges, with slots 8. These slots, as shown, are preferably L-shaped, so

that the spindle shaft 9 of the paper roll 10 will be firmly secured as against any tendency to dislodge it upwardly under the action of i the pull on the paper which is taken off the l bottom of the roll. The spindle 9 is further secured by having finnular end slots, received by the notches, so that the spindle is virtually provided with'heads to prevent endwise slipping of the spindle and also ties the side walls 7 firmly together.

As the paper strip leaves the roll 10 it is pulled over the upper edge of a partition or tongue 11, punched up from the plate 4.. This partition defines the rear end of a chamber a piece of carbon paper 22 is inserted between or pocltet it, and serves to hold this lower run. of paper out of and above the chamber.v

The writing support consists of a plate 12 having depending side flanges 18 that pivot at their upper ends, as atis, to the side walls 7.. At their lower ends the flanges l3 rotatably support a cross roller 15, over which the paper strip passes after leaving the tongue 11. It will be noted that the upper edge of the tongue 11 is substantially inline with the pivots 14, with a result that when the plate 12 is lifted up, to gain access to the chamber A, there will be no additional pull on or slack in the paper stri From the rol er 15 the paper passes up through a slot 16, in the plate 12, and again down in a second slot 17 so as to pass under an angular portion 18 of the plate 12. The section 18 is supplemented by a similarly formed spring member 19 that is secured as by brazing or weldin to the plate 12, as at 20. Thus the paper en is pro ected upwardly from and yieldingly retained between the members 18 and 19.

The members 18 and 19 are provided with "5 registering finger holes 21, but these holes, it will be noted, do not reach the upper edges of the sections 18 and 19, although they are sufliciently large to permit a finger grip on the paper to pull it up sufficiently so that the promoting end may be then grasped and pulled. If the holes 21 were merely notches cut down into the members 18 and 19 this operation might be slightly facilitated, but in that event the upper ed e of section 18 is practically useless as a cutting edge for tearing oil used sections of the paper, as the open notch willinvariably cause the paper to tear.

When the device is used merely as a memorandum pad a roll of only one strip of paper is used. When the device is used as an order or sales register, however, or for anyother purpose where carbon copies are desired, a double strip roll is employed. In this event the strips, over the writing surface of the plate 12, and ispassed under the flanges 13 where it is secured by friction clips 23 pivotally secured to the flanges 13, as at 24.

When the exposed flat surface of the paper tural details of the invention as herein shown,

provided, however, that said modifications come within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having now therefore fully shown and described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a hollow frame adapted to support a roll of paper in one end thereof, a tiltable writing plate covering the other end of the frame and formin a chamber therewith, a roller carried by t e lower end of the plate over which paper is passed from the roll and to the u per surface of the plate.

2. A evice of the character described comprising a hollow frame adapted to support a roll of paper in one end'thereof, a tiltable writing plate covering the other end of the frame and formin roller atone end 0% the plate over which paper is passed from the roll and to the upper surface of the'plate, and means for holding the run of paper from the roll to the roller raised free from the chamber.

3. A device of the character describe-d comprising a hollow frame adapted to support a roll of paper in one end thereof, a tiltable writing plate covering the other end of the frame and formin a chamber therewith, a roller at one end 0 the plate over which paper is passed from the roll and to the upper surface of the plate, and means for holding the run of paper from the roll to the .roller raised comprising a ton' e extending upwardly from the bottom 0 the frame.

4. A device of the character described comprising aframe having means for sup orting a roll of paper in the rear end thereo an inclined plate positioned over the forepart of the frame and forming a chamber therewith, and a partition member arranged forwardly of the roll to support paper from the roll and to form a rear wall for the chamber.

' 5. In a device of the character described, a paper roll support, a plate over which paper.

.may be drawn longitudinally from the roll,

having depending side flanges and means for a chafnber therewith, a

and means for securing a transversel extending piece of carbon paper to the si es of the plate, said means comprising a pair of releasable clips associated with lateral depending flange ortions of the plate.

In a evice of the character described, a

securing a transversely extending piece of carbon paper to the flanges of-the plate.

6. In a device of the character described, a paper roll support, a plate over which paper may be drawn longitudinally" from the roll, 

